The 3 x 3 Journal: A Quick & Easy Journaling Method for People Who Don’t Have Time to Journal

If you have 3 minutes at the end of the day, you can do this — and it will change the way you approach each day.

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Here’s a question for you: what were you doing at this time 4 years ago? Unless a huge life-altering event happened to you at that time, you might have trouble answering the question. If you did have trouble, it’s likely because you don’t keep a journal.

By now, you’re probably familiar with at least some of the benefits of journaling regularly, so I won’t recount them here. But I will discuss a problem that many of us face regarding journaling: it seems to daunting to do regularly. So we don’t end up doing it, and thus don’t reap the benefits.

Well, I love simple and elegant solutions to persistent problems. So here’s a good one for you.

The problem

You don’t have time to journal. Or maybe the prospect of sitting down to write out what happened during the day makes you want to curl up in the fetal position on the floor. I feel your pain.

Heck, I’m a writer, but I still struggle with the idea of sitting down to journal. But we’re all aware by now of the documented…